{"id":1354,"date":"2026-06-06T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/domain-privacy-protection\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:30","slug":"domain-privacy-protection","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/domain-privacy-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain Privacy Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domain privacy protection hides domain registrant contact details from public domain lookup results.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, many registrars offered this as a paid add-on called privacy protection, ID Protect, or WHOIS protection.<\/p>\n<h2>How Privacy Works Now<\/h2>\n<p>Domain privacy is now handled differently because of GDPR and modern domain registration rules.<\/p>\n<p>For domains with registrant details in the UK or EU, personal registrant details are normally hidden automatically from public WHOIS or RDAP lookup results.<\/p>\n<p>Our registrar will hide registrant details broadly in public lookup results, whether the registrant is an individual or a business.<\/p>\n<h2>Do You Need to Buy Privacy Protection?<\/h2>\n<p>In most cases, no separate privacy protection purchase is needed for UK or EU registrant details.<\/p>\n<p>If privacy handling depends on the domain extension, registrar, or registry rules, the available options will be shown during registration or inside your domain management page.<\/p>\n<h2>What May Still Be Public<\/h2>\n<p>Even when registrant details are hidden, some domain information can still be public, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The domain name.<\/li>\n<li>The registrar.<\/li>\n<li>The domain status.<\/li>\n<li>The registration and expiry dates.<\/li>\n<li>The nameservers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>If Your Details Are Showing Publicly<\/h2>\n<p>If you believe your personal details are showing publicly for a domain registered through 4UHosting, open a support ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Include the domain name and where you saw the details, and we will check it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domain privacy protection hides domain registrant contact details from public domain lookup results. In the past, many registrars offered this as a paid add-on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[6],"class_list":["post-1354","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-domains-and-dns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1354\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}